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Katherine McDonald of Strategem summarising the first four months of the Assembly and highlighting some of the challenges ahead.TRANSCRIPT
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THE ISSUES• Water charges
• Health (prescriptions, personal care)
• Education (11+)• The Economy (corporation tax, industrial de-
rating)
• Affordable housing
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The Manifestos
Consensus can be built e.g.:– Commissioner for Older People– Free personal care – Mental health
• Some spending commitments e.g.:– Drop prescription charges (UUP, SF)
• Devolutionary comparisons and RoI
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Lobbying in the Manifestos
• Postcode prescribing and access to drugs
• Access to dementia medications
• Arthritis, MS, cancer, heart disease and stroke, respiratory disease
• Diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular illnesses
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Election Results Party Seats
DUP 36 +6
Sinn Fein 28 +4
UUP 18 -9
SDLP 16 -2
Alliance Party 7 +1
PUP 1
Green Party 1 +1
Ind Health 1
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DHSS&PS Minister Michael McGimpsey
• RPA and local commissioning• Review of Prescription charges• MRSA• Mental health and suicide prevention• Free personal care
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Environment
• RPA – future of local government
• Planning backlog
• Giant’s Causeway
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Education• Classroom Assistants’ Pay
• Post 11 arrangements
• School buildings modernisation
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Employment & Learning• FE Lecturers pay dispute
• Tackling illiteracy
• Building skills base for economic vision
• Regional minimum wage
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Enterprise, Trade and Investment
• Employment levels healthy
• New inward investment
• Move away from public sector dominance
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Finance & Personnel
• Inherited budget and CSR
• Efficiency savings – ‘only 3%?’
• Varney and corporation tax
• Managing other Ministers
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Regional Development
• Delayed water charges
• Review of Water and Sewerage
• Infrastructure Investment
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Social Development• Welfare Reform Bill
• Affordable Housing
• Funding for loyalist programmes
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Assembly Business• Affordable Housing debate – housing
associations
• Free Personal Care – Age Concern
• Domestic Violence – Women’s Aid
• Fuel Poverty – SCF, Barnardo’s
• Carers’ Support – Carers Week
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"Many people in politics can tell you what just happened to you...you need to change
outcomes."
Tony Podesta,
Washington Lobbyist
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Making Real Impact
1. What do you want to say? 2. Whom do you want to say it to - who has
an interest? Who wields influence? 3. What do you do - actions4. Is it working?
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1.What’s my line?
• What’s do I want?
• Where do I need it?
• What’s my evidence?
• How much will it cost?
• KEEP IT LOCAL
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Evidence base Politically acceptable
What is do-able
Understand the environment – Understand the environment – where does policy come from? where does policy come from?
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2. Targeting
Minister
Permanent Secretary/Special Advisers
Civil ServiceOFMDFM
MLAs and Constituents
Party Colleagues and
Policy Staff
The ‘Establishment’
Party Members
Unions,
user groups
lobby groups
Academics, think-tanks
experts
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3. What can we do?
• Meetings
• Briefings – short
• Committee presentation
• Questions
• Debates
• Constituency events
• Party conferences
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OTHER ACTIVITIES• Media • Photocalls• Articles• Opinion Pieces• Profiles• Seminars• Dinners
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4. LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
LEARNING
WHO HELPED
KNOWLEDGE AT START
THE CHALLANGE
A Corporate Case?
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IS IT WORKING?• Remember, change does not happen
overnight, so…
• …build in milestones/benchmarks to keep your self motivated
– Parties met, meetings held, column inches etc.
• Evaluate, then start again!
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• ‘All politics is local’
• Coalitions and opposition
• Persevere
• Build relationships for the long-term
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“If you don’t lobby,
government assumes you have no problems”
– Ellis, N. (1998) Parliamentary Lobbying